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Seeing Otherwise: ‘The Least of These’ and Revelation in Jean‐Luc Marion
Abstract In his familiar essay in Phenomenology and the ‘Theological Turn’, Jean‐François Courtine writes that the ‘cardinal experience’ of revelatory phenomena would undoubtedly be the incarnation. But in its singularity, this experience, he admits, seems to elude phenomenological thought.
Thomas Breedlove
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The Image of the New Adam in the Book of Daniel (Daniel 4 and 7)
The interpretation of the Son of Man figure in Dan 7 is one of the most hotly debated issues in biblical scholarship. This article is based on the premise that the analysis of the Aramaic Daniel (Dan 1-7), the earlier part of the modern Hebrew-Aramaic ...
Igor Bessonov
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‘Between righteousness and alms’ in Tobit: What was the author’s real intention?
Before the Semitic fragments of 4QTobit were found at Qumran, the 4th-century Greek GI version of Tobit was thought to be original and was regarded as ‘a lesson on almsgiving and its redeeming powers’. In his presentation of the 4Q196–4Q199 (Aramaic) and
Annette H. Evans
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Jewish Divination in the Greco–Roman Era
ABSTRACT This article analyzes the divinatory methods the Jews used to address their questions in the Greco–Roman era. Scholars have previously examined how authors of the Hebrew Bible are aware of numerous divinatory techniques. The texts of the Greco–Roman era, especially the Dead Sea Scrolls, preserve even more references illuminating the ancients ...
Hanna Tervanotko
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Etymology of Aramaic (and Hebrew) √prns ‘to distribute, supply’
The Aramaic verbal root √prns ‘to distibute, supply’ is first attested in the Middle Aramaic period (Palmyrene Aramaic and Targum Jonathan). It is then widely attested across all of the dialects of Late Aramaic.
Aaron Michael Butts
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Fragmentary ancient texts are notoriously difficult to interpret. In this article, I offer case studies on two short sections of Qumran Aramaic texts.
Christian Stadel
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The relationship between Arabic Allāh and Syriac Allāhā [PDF]
Various etymologies have been proposed for Arabic allāh but also for Syriac allāhā. It has often been proposed that the Arabic word was borrowed from Syriac. This article takes a comprehensive look at the linguistic evidence at hand. Especially, it takes
Kiltz, David
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A Lydian-Aramaic Bilingual. I [PDF]
The publication of the Lydian inscriptions discovered by the American excavators at Sardis has long been eagerly awaited. Not only do the thirty-four which they found supplement in the most welcome manner the very scanty and fragmentary material hitherto known, but of especial interesl was the news that they included an admirably preserved bilingual in
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The Aramaic Text in Demotic Script.
This work presents an examination of an Aramaic poetic text that likely served as the liturgy for a New Year's festival within an Aramaic-speaking community in Egypt around the third century BCE.
Steiner, Richard C
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